Douglas Yates

People who are sensible about love 
are incapable of it. 
~Douglas Yates~ 

William Butler Yeats

Hearts are not had as a gift
but hearts are earned...
~William Butler Yeats~

Happiness is neither virtue
nor pleasure nor this thing nor that
but simply growth,
We are happy
when we are growing.
~William Butler Yeats~

Education is not filling a pail,
but lighting a fire.
~William Butler Yeats~

Kenko Yoshida

To sit alone in the lamplight 
with a book spread out before you, 
and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-- 
such is a pleasure beyond compare. 
~Kenko Yoshida~ 

Margaret Young

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; 
they try to have more things, or more money, 
in order to do more of what they want, 
so they will be happier. 
The way it actually works is the reverse. 
You must first be who you really are, 
then do what you need to do, 
in order to have what you want. 
~Margaret Young~ 

Marguerite Yourcenar

A book may lie dormant for fifty years 
or for two thousand years 
in a forgotten corner of a library, 
only to reveal, upon being opened, 
the marvels or the abysses that it contains, 
or the line that seems to have been written 
for me alone. 
In this respect the writer is not different 
from any other human being: 
whatever we say or do can have 
far-reaching consequences. 
~Marguerite Yourcenar~ 

Whitney M. Young, Jr.

Support the strong, 
give courage to the timid, 
remind the indifferent, 
and warn the opposed. 
~Whitney M. Young, Jr.~ 

Marguerite Yourcenar

....whatever we say or do can have 
far-reaching consequences. 
~Marguerite Yourcenar~ 

song playing....Photographs And Memories

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